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Schizophrenia -Dynamics and Treatment Elsworth Baker, M .D. Reprinted from the Journal of Orgonomy Volume 7 N o. 1 The American College of Orgonomy Schizophrenia has been a puzzle for psychiatry since it was first described by Kraepelin in 1898. Its origin has been acribed to diverse causes, each supported by a respectable following. Thus we have Kretschmer and the asthenic body types; Freud, Bleuler, and Jung and the psychological cause; Sullivan and the environmental or interpersonal relationships; Kallmann and genetics; Henry Cotton and the focal infection theory; Heath and the disturbance of metabolism; and Kety, who maintained the cause was a dist urbance in transmethylation. Others have studied the endocrine glands, blood, and brain. None have fully explained this condition. I will now present a further theory –the energetic concept. The other theories can, I think, be shown to be dealing with con tributing causes, such as genetics and environment, or with a result of the process such as asthenic build or disturbance in metabolism. The focal infection theory and Henry Cotton (long since forgotten) have no place beyond the fact that an infection may precipitate a psychosis in a schizophrenic character. It would have nothing to do with the cause. After a quarter of a century of extensive research on emotional problems, Wilhelm Reich discovered a specific energy in the body which he first called bioele ctric energy, believing it to be electrical in nature. Further study revealed that it possessed many properties not found in electricity, so he renamed it orgone (organismic) energy. This energy is constantly being built up in the body through the intake o f food, fluid, and air and is directly absorbed through the skin. It is discharged through activity, excretion and growth and regulated by sexual activity. After it reaches a certain level, excess energy is felt as sexual excitation. Thus, to Reich, Freud ‘s libidinal energy was a reality. If this energy flows freely through the body without any hindrances or blocks, the individual functions in a healthy manner. He is also aware of this flow in the form of pleasurable sensations of being alive, “streamings, ” and a three dimensional perception of the body. However, no one in our society is allowed to grow up without a lot of “verbots,” so each of us is forced to hold back his feelings or emotional expression. This is done by holding the breath and tightening the muscles in the various parts of the body and is known as armoring. The body can be divided into seven muscular segments: the ocular, oral, cervical, thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal, and pelvic. In armoring, the muscles are held in chronic contracti on by a chronic sympatheticotonia produced by a continuing anxiety. For example, if the mother commands, “Stop crying,” the child
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